Lady and the Scamp

Row after row of muscle cars. Booths full of gears and engine blocks and a guy selling nothing but bungee cords and here stands Ellen Pelker of Aurora. She's trying to sell a 1975 Plymouth Scamp, slant 6, baby blue, white vinyl top. The car is an estate sale special she picked up two years ago in Portland's West Hills. "It purrs like a kitten!"

She's had some interested shoppers. And a guy from Norway who said he drove one there for 225,000 miles. Too bad he's not around because we all want to know how a Scamp ended up in Norway.

And the obvious about the Swap Meet is not lost on Ellen. "The women, you notice, smile at each other. We know what it's all about. It's a man event."

The Swap Meet is target rich if the sole criteria here is being male. "Where else do guys walk by all day," she said. But the mix of guys is um, far and wide.